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Knotted Pillows & Tutorial

Throw pillows are everyones best friend – and with good reason! Vibrant throw pillows can transform an entire room’s decor and deliver a bold color statement. If such pillows happen to be vibrant and dimensional, like these knotted ones which I made few days ago, then they can have a double effect in any room’s decor.
I made these pillows using a purple fury like fabric which was a leftover from a DIY floor pillow featured in this post.
To make the knotted pillow I cut a strip of fabric about 1.5 yards long and 8 inches wide. I folded the strip of fabric in half and sewed the long length of it leaving 1/4 seam allowance. I used a straight stitch to sew the fabric into a tube, and after the sewing I turned the tube inside out.

To stuff the fabric tube, I rolled un unused poster board and placed it inside the fabric tube. I scrunched the entire length of the fabric tube onto the roll, then I proceeded with the stuffing, pushing it through with a wooden spoon. This is the hardest and most time consuming part of this project, as the process was proceeding quite slowly and I had to make sure that the tube was being stuffed evenly, without lumps. The last few inches, at the start and at the end of the tube, do not need to be stuffed as they will be sewn together.
After the tube was stuffed I proceeded with creating the knotted design as shown in the pictures of the collage. As the stuffed tube is not very long, there is only one knot and the two loose ends are tucked as shown in the collage.
The pillow then is flipped over (at the back) and two lose ends are sewn together.
For the design with thiner tubes, I cut 2 stripes of fabric about 1.5 yard long and 4 1/2 inch wide, sewed the withs together ( to turn it into a 3 yard stripe), and followed the same method as explained above; except that for this design I doubled the tube (making it as one strand) to make the knot.
The pillows have turned really cute; they have dimension and texture and for sure are adding a punch of color to this corner in my home.

I love the pillows and the great tutorial! SO appreciate of creative people like you who are generous enough to share with the rest of us. And I am totally swooning over that chair!! Did you buy it? Make it? Is it just a sheepskin draped over a chair? So so gorgeous. Thanks again. 🙂